I Made A Captain America Shield From A Sled

So this is a long drawn out, full of elbow grease process, but once you get the hang of it, its pretty cheap and not really that difficult. This is made from a metal saucer sled which is kind of hard to find because its a popular sled AND popular amongst cap types like myself. Its a blast for me to see how it goes from solid red sled, to something that could be in the movies.

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I’m doing a full, long tutorial on my blog so that just about anybody could pick one up and do it themselves.

Taped out, red rings ready for paint

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Once you tape the whole shield you’ve got to draw all the rings on and then carefully cut the red rings out. Pull them off, that leaves the metal ring and the blue circle. At this point you take anodized paint and spray the red.

After wet sanding, you need to use rubbing compound to fill in the scratches and buff it up.

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BUT OH NO! you wrecked your finish. Yeah you kind of did. But rubbing compound fills in all these marks and brings the finish back to the shine you had before. It just takes some elbow grease and the smoothness you get is totally worth the extra work.